On December 20, the Swiss Grasshopper Football Club officially announced the joining of Qingdao international Li Lei. Subsequently, the Beijing Guoan Club also officially issued a farewell to Li Lei.
According to the official announcement of the Zurich Grasshopper Club, Li Lei will officially join the team in January next year after the end of this season's Chinese Super League, wearing the No. 4 shirt, and the Grasshoppers also wish Li Lei good results in helping Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League this season.
Zurich Grasshopper Club Announcement
Li Lei, a 29-year-old left-back who plays for Beijing Guoan Football Club, will be registered in the 2021/2022 winter transfer window.
Li Lei was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, and received youth training in Qingdao. In April 2010, Li Lei, who was under the age of 18, made his career debut in the Chinese Super League on behalf of Nanchang Bayi. He has played for Nanchang Bayi (Shanghai Shenxin), Henan Jianye and Beijing Guoan, making more than 200 professional league appearances. In 2018, he won the FA Cup with Beijing Guoan. In 2019, Li Lei was selected as the best team in the 2019 Season of the Chinese Super League.
In March 2019, Li Lei played for the Chinese national team for the first time, making 5 appearances for the national team so far, and receiving 2 assists.
Grasshopper Technical Director O'Clofengana said: "It is a pleasure to see Li Lei join Grasshopper! He is a Chinese international who brings a lot of experience to the team. Hopefully he will adapt well to Swiss football and culture and help the team in the second half of the season. ”
Grasshopper wishes Li Lei good results in the remaining competitions of the 2021 Chinese Super League season and looks forward to seeing you in Zurich, Switzerland next January!
Beijing Guoan Club officially bid farewell to Li Lei
In 138 appearances in seven spring, autumn, winter and summer, he contributed 4 goals and 12 assists. Maybe we can't remember all the moments when you put on the green jersey, but we will never forget your running figure and every moment you sacrificed yourself to defend. The outside world is very exciting, desperately Sanlang must keep your desperate background, but more importantly, to protect yourself, no longer injured and sick, do not let us worry about it. I wish Li Lei all the best!
It is understood that Li Lei was born in Qingdao on May 30, 1992. When he was in elementary school, Li Lei received football initiation at an amateur club. At the age of 12, Li Lei was selected by the Chinese League One team Qingdao HailiFeng to join the club echelon, and has since participated in the youth league. In 2009, when Hailifeng was disqualified from registration for gambling, Li Lei was only 17 years old, and since then he has impressed head coach Zhu Jiong through his performance in training, thus smoothly joining the Nanchang Bayi team. On April 17, 2010, Li Lei, wearing the No. 2 shirt, made his Debut in the Chinese Super League at the age of 18 in a match between Nanchang Bayi and Hangzhou Greentown in the sixth round of the Chinese Super League. In June of the same year, Li Lei was drafted by the Chinese Football Association to join the national youth team and played well in the Asian Youth Championship held in Zibo. On February 16, 2013, Li Lei officially joined Henan Jianye, won the Chinese League One championship with the team, and was promoted to the Chinese Super League in the 2014 season. During his time at Jianye, Li Lei was selected for the U22 national team. At noon on January 18, 2015, Beijing Guoan Club announced that 23-year-old full-back Li Lei had joined the team, and the former Guoqing Hun would wear the No. 3 shirt of the Royal Forest Army to compete in the Chinese Super League.
Qingdao Morning Post reporter Liu Shijie
